Trump Derangement Syndrome - Orange man bad. Read the OP! (ᴛʜɪs ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴅ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴋɪᴡɪ ғᴀʀᴍs ʀᴇᴠɪᴇᴡs ɴᴏᴡ) 🗿🗿🗿🗿
- Thread starter Randall Fragg
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I would be much more concerned if this was August instead of June. People have short memories.
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I'm hoping punters are reading this situation wrong because if Biden does win because of this Democracy in America will be dead. I find the timing of these riots suspicious but if Joe wins I'll have no doubt in my mind the Democrats were behind these riots.
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I don't necessarily disagree with you, but there is one thing I'd like to point out here: the powers that modern liberal politics and ideology currently cling to are starting to decline on some measure or are facing unprecedented backlash from existing establishments. It's kind of an inverse effect of the Bush administration, if you will.
The devastating loss the Democrats in 2016 combined with the radicalisation the party has faced since then along with the complete failure of the Blue Wave revealed something very telling about the Democrats as a whole. They focus far too much on urban populism to the point where they alienate suburban and rural voters from their policies. This is also compounded by the fact that they act in such a self-assured manner to the point where they can't fucking see the writing on the walls.
"New media" outlets like Salon/Vox, Vice, and Buzzfeed and even traditional news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times have seen unprecedented layoffs in their overall staff because of the fact that people are catching onto the fact that the content that they put out on a daily basis is basically rubbish that doesn't actually engage the user outside of shitty clickbait. In the case of the latter, trust in traditional news outlets has been declining steadily over time.
Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter are facing increasing amounts of scrutiny for the way that they tailor their news feeds to generate the most amount of engagement possible at the expense of inadvertently (or intentionally, depending on whether or not you want to trace this phenomena back to Obama winning 2012) influencing elections. If you want to bring up the subject of fact checking on social media, the amount of scrutiny these companies face becomes much bigger.
This ties in with my previous point, but it still bears mentioning on its own. The prevalence of Big Data alongside the aforementioned scrutiny that companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and so on have been facing has led to apps like AdBlock/uBlock and Brave to actually have a niche. The Mozilla Foundation also rebranded Firefox to have a more privacy-centric development model which seems to have managed to recover a small portion of their previous user base that migrated over to Chrome in years past. This might not seem like a big deal, but Big Data is all about generating ad revenue and engagement no matter the cost. Such measures to protect, anonymise, or outright falsify the data is anathema to these corporate interests and takes away some measure of power from these entities who directly profit off of these lunatic left-wing narratives since they're the ones who buy into it the most. Again, I might be optimistic in my assessment of this, but such products (outside of AdBlock/DuckDuckGo) wouldn't have had a niche outside of minor convenience at best a good 8-10 years ago.
There definitely is a discussion to be had about whether or not the newer generation will be able to adapt to a life without all of this left-wing lunacy enabled by instant dopamine fixes caused by social media, but the cracks in the very institutions that the left have been shown and are steadily increasing over time.
Super-Chevy454
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And add to the list, Biden will do a couple of more gaffes and others missteps up to November if he isn't replaced.
Adam The Ticket Seller
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Every. Single. Time.
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I think they're reading it wrong. If coronavirus deaths don't spike in two weeks because of these protests, the Dems are vulnerable to retribution by people who've had their lives turned over. Remember, the Dems have said we shut down too late and have opened too early. So what they were proposing would have been even more destructive.
Also, in light of thousands gathering to riot and loot, the case for not doing in person debates is now gone. It's completely gone. There is no justification for Biden not having to get on stage with Trump. One debate, let alone three, is not survivable for Biden.
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Not only that, but if they DO spike in two weeks, then the Dems will be vulnerable to criticism about why did they support all the rioters, sorry, peaceful protesters, going out in huge mobs. Its a lose-lose.
Plus for the three people that have a memory longer than a month, they'll remember that it was racist to be worried about the Wu Flu right before it was evil to not be worried about it. The coof is a double-edged sword for anyone who tries to weaponize it, and the Dems have consistently shown that they think "double-edged" means "perfectly safe to use and has no chance of ever hurting us ever".
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Lol. I can just imagine a Dem going, 'Two edges? That must mean it's twice as good as one!'
These mistakes, at the hands of a lesser GOP opponent might not be fatal. But against someone with the messaging talent of Trump they will be. The ads Trump will cut will be devastating to Biden and the Dems.
They most likely didn't take into account the possibility of him dropping dead before November.
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Wut? WHAT?
Will you jerkwads stop killing yourselves before we robots can?
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I think if it was in any other situation you'd probably be right. If Mattis spoke out about some foreign country taking action and Trump doing nothing to stop it/in reprisal, and Trump shittalked him in a tweet, yeah that might hurt him.
But Mattis ranting at Trump for trying to stop cities from burning, and Trump shittalking him over that? I don't see that hurting Trump much. I see that more likely diminishing Mattis's standing with the people that previously were ticked at Trump for letting him go. "What, he just wants to let the rioters riot? No wonder Trump fired him." Whether or not that's the case, it will be easy to see it that way... I think it's actually more likely to make many of Trump's supporters see him firing Mattis in a more positive light.
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Trump railing at Mattis will have the same result as Trump saying anything:
- The people who like Trump will spin it as a 4D chess or him being a strong leader.
- The people who hate Trump will spin it as him being Literally Hitler.
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I've said this before about the way they use "racist" but it clearly applies to this too now, leftists use "fash" the way racists use "nigger".
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Only tangentially related so I'm just going to link the crosspost. Project Veritas new video has come out and it shows Antifa meetings explictly discussing how to cause violence.
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But they've never killed anyone, so it's OK you see.
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God I've literally seen people make that argument with full sincerity.
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It happened far too early then. Unless they plan to keep this up.
Seriously, I was already a former Democrat, but letting their fucking cities burn to own orange man is just too much for me.
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